Omicron spiked, and we hit our Test to Stay threshold. Unfortunately, so did everyone else, and they had to suspend the program. We were told we could send kids home for a week while we waited for things to die down. We don't have enough devices to be a 1:1 school, so we just sent kids home with packets and enjoyed a week off. I immediately got in the car and headed south. My first stop was Kanab, where I did half of a hike to some toadstools. It felt so good to be in Phoenix and just talk and talk to Denise and Hannah and Amanda and Rachel and Abby. I did not love Phoenix, but most of my favorite people are there and sometimes I wish life would take me back there. Denise was kind enough to come to the arboretum with me to see the boojum trees, and then we stopped at Pita Jungle on the way home and I had the best quinoa hummus salad of my whole life. On the way back to SLC, I finished the hike from the previous weekend. It started out with hiking up a boring wash: And then it sta